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BBATING OUT MACHINE.

Patented Jan. 23, 1894.

WITNEESES- FFIGEQ PATENT IVILLIAM E. FORSTER AND EUGENE H. TAYLOR,OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS SAID TAYLOR ASSIGNOR TO SAID FORSTER.

BEATlNG-OUT MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,385, dated January 23, 1894,

Application filed January 19, 1893. Serial No. 459,008. (No model..

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. FoRsTER and EUGENE H. TAYLOR, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Lynn, in the 5 county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Beating-Out Machine, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of sole leveling or beating out machines having swinging last supporting arms, and consists of the following improvements upon the machine shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 478,420 for improvements in beating out machines, granted to said Forster on the th day of July, 1892, to wit: First, of alast supporting table pivoted to the swinging arm and adapted to retain a horizontal position; second, of a device for imparting swinging motion to the last supporting arms; third, of a device for adjusting the last supporting table; fourth, of the devices and combinations of devices herein; after more particularly set forth.

The accompanying drawings are an illustration of our invention, in which- Figure 1 is a section taken inside the supporting frame, showing our invention and enough of the machine shown and described in said Letters Patent to show the connection of our present invention therewith. Fig. 2 is a side view of our invention, detached from said machine. Fig. 3 is afront view of portion of same. Fig. 4 is a side view of our im- 3 5 proved last supporting table; Figs. 5 and 6, top views of plates composing same. Fig. 7 is a side view of mechanism showing another method of constructing our invention. Fig. 8 is a front view of same. i

Similar letters and figures of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a shaft shown, described and designated as a 45 crank shaft in the specification forming part of said Letters Patent. g

In our present invention our device for imparting swinging motion to the arms consists of a pair of cams 2, 2 keyed to the shaft 1, and provided with the camways 3, 3. In the cam ways 3, 3, run the cam rolls 4, 4, journaled in rigid connections 5, 5, secured to the arm A. As shown in the drawings, a portion df each of the cam ways 3, 3, is circular, so that during a portion of the revolution of the earns the cam roll is not acted upon, the eccentric portlon of the cam way acting upon the roll during the rest of the revolution of the cam. The cams 2, 2 are so keyed to the shaft 1 that the cam ways 3, 3 act alternately upon the cam rolls 4, 4, and by means of the rigid connections 5, 5, impart an alternate motion to the arms A, A, the arms A, A being moved successively from and back to a vertical position. 6

In the machine shown and described in said 5 Letters Patent, the. last rest, or last supporting table, so called, was rigidly secured to the swinging arms, so that when said arms swung forward the front of the last rest was throwndown, and consequently the toe of the last and shoe depressed, making it very difficult for the operator to examine and test the work done by the machine. To obviate this difficulty, we have in our present invention se cured the last rests 6, 6 to the swinging a rms A, A, by pivoted connections 7, 7, and 7 7 so that same can be raised at the forward ends as the arms swing forward, and brou ht into a horizontal position when the ar ms 8o reach the limit of their forward motion.

We have further provided means for automatically accomplishing the above result of which we have shown two forms in the drawngs. The first and preferred form is shown 1n Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, and is described as follows: The last supporting arm Ais constructed of a series of parallel uprights 8, 8, and 8, 8, which at or near their lower ends are pivotally connected with the go supporting frame of the machine or other suitable support and at or near their upper ends are pivotally connected with the last rests or last supporting table 6, 6. The lower points of connection being in a horizontal '5 line, each of the arms A, A act on the principle of the parallel rule, and for any position of the supports 8, S, the last rest 6, is horizontal.

The form of constructin our inventi shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is d scribed as iod de? we The arms A, A are constructed with. two up rights 9, 9, between which is pivoted the last rest 6, the portion of the last rest 6 extending below its pivotal connection with the uprights and is free to swing between the uprights, and being perpendicular to the face of the table acts by gravity to keep the same horizontal for any position of the arms.

We render the last supporting table adj ustable, so that the last may be brought into position under the form by the following device: The table is constructed of the two plates 12 and 13. (See Figs. 4, 5, and 6.) The plate 12 is provided with three bolts, one of which, centrally placed thereon, extends into a transverse slot in the plate 13; the other two pass through the slots 14 and 16 in said plate 13, and the portion extending below the plate 13 is threaded, each of said bolts being pro- Vided with a thumb screw. By this device, the upper plate which carries the last is rendered torsionally and transversely adjustable.

The operation of our invention has already been sufficiently described with the description of the construction heretofore set forth.

The operation and construction of connectedv parts of the machine upon which our present invention constitutes an improvement, which do not form part of our present invention have already been clearly set forth in the specification forming part of said Letters Patent, to which reference may be had, and which are made a part hereof.

We claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a beating-out machine provided with last supporting arms adapted to receive a swinging motion to and from a vertical position, the combination of last supporting tables pivotallysecured to said arms, and mechanism substantially as described operating automatically to bring said tables into a horizontal position at the limits of the swinging motion of said arms, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

2. In a beating out machine,provided with last supporting arms adapted to receive a swinging motion to and from a vertical position, a series of parallel uprights, pivoted in fixed bearings, constituting each of said arms, and last supporting tables pivotally secured thereto; all substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

" 3. In a beating-out machine alast supporting table consisting of an upper and lower plate horizontally movable with reference to each other, and a pivotal and sliding connection between said plates for transversely and torsionally adjusting the same, all substantially as set forth and for the purposes specifled- 4.. In a beating out machine provided with last supporting arms having swinging motion to and from a vertical position, last supporting tables pivotally secured to said arms and held in a horizontal position by the swinging motion thereof, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

Dated at Lynn this 23d day A. D. 1892.

of November,

WILLIAM E. FORSTER. EUGENE H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

LYMAN O. Goonwm, HENRY L. DENNETT. 

